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Launch of Apollo 17 — final Apollo lunar mission

NASA launched Apollo 17 from Cape Kennedy with Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, and Ronald Evans on a mission that would be the last crewed lunar landing of the Apollo program.

Launch of Apollo 17 — final Apollo lunar mission

As the final crewed lunar mission during Nixon's presidency, Apollo 17 closed the Apollo era, representing a culmination of U.S. space achievement and Cold War scientific prestige under his administration.

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